Rhea Chakraborty appears before ED in Sushant Singh Rajput's death case

The Enforcement Directorate on Friday grilled actor and model Rhea Chakraborty for several hours to dig deeper into her financial and property details.

Rhea (28), the girlfriend and partner of Sushant Singh Rajput has been accused by the actor’s family of abetting the suicide and swindling off his money.

Besides Rhea, her brother Showik Chakraborty and her former manager Shruti Modi too were grilled by the agency in its Ballard Estate office in south Mumbai.

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In the morning, Rhea requested the ED if she can appear next week after the Supreme Court hears her plea, however, it was turned down, after which she reached the ED office.

Later Showik and Shruti too reached the ED office.

In between, Showik left the officer for a couple of hours to fetch documents from his house.

It may be recalled, the ED that had registered an enforcement case information report (ECIR) based on the first information report (FIR) lodged in the Rajiv Nagar police station in Patna.

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The CBI has now taken over the case after the Bihar government wrote to the Centre.

After the FIR of the Patna police, Rhea had moved the Supreme Court seeking that the case is investigated by the Mumbai police.

The Supreme Court is expected to hear her plea next week.

The Mumbai police, that had registered an accidental death report (ADR) after the death of Sushant Singh Rajput on 14 June and has refused to hand over the case to the CBI.

It may be recalled, the ED has recorded the statement of Sushant Singh Rajput’s chartered accountant Sandeep Sridhar and his house manager Samuel Miranda.

The two companies of Sushant Singh Rajput, Rhealityx Private Limited and Innsaei Ventures Private Limited are to be examined by the agency. In Vividrage Rhealityx Private Ltd, Rhea and her brother Showik Chakraborty, are partners.

The Bihar police had last week visited the Kotak Mahindra Bank and HDFC Bank to seek details of the accounts of Sushant Singh Rajput.

The two properties of Rhea is also being examined besides the sources of income and the loans that she had taken to book the properties.

Rajput's friend and roommate Siddharth Pithani is also likely to be questioned by the ED.